Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.

We are made wholeBy books, as by great spaces and the stars

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

The true liberation, the true path to freedom, lay in the ability to forgive.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

I'm super-obsessed with 'Intervention.' I wrote a song about it.

A sense of belonging is not physical. We cant find it by changing where we live or what we do. We have to carry it within us

The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.